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Remain In Light is part masterpiece, part flop. This is not another tribute to the Black rhythm and blues heritage of rock--it is not rock at all. It is a synthesis of modern lyrics and recording techniques with basic tribal African polyrhythms. At times the combination seems forced and unnatural, like cookies and ketchup, but on about half the songs--most notably "Once In A Lifetime"--the combo clicks like chocolate and peanut butter...
...lose interest in the matters at hand--and so did the crowd. Its collective attention moved to the Harvard cheerleaders, who were flinging themselves about in a display of "pep" almost unprecedented in these mellow parts. The entire Harvard side of the Stadium rose to watch the cheerleaders flip, flop, and otherwise abuse, a member of the Harvard Band. Good thing, too, because on the field, Buckley had thrown his fourth (and second-to-last) interception, and the Harvard gridders were sleepwalking...
...investor puts up $20,000 cash and a $100,000 note due in ten years and gets to depreciate $115,000 on his taxes in the first three years. If the novels and anticipated movies are bookstore and box-office smashes, the investor will hit the jackpot. If they flop, though, the investor will still have to pay off the $100,000 note after ten years...
February 1977: Signing up with a booking agent for public appearances, he sets his fee: up to $10,000. Takers include Miss Piggy's Pizza Beauty Pageant in Boston and the Vancouver World Belly Flop and Cannonball Diving Contest...
...wild ideas, gags, nutty notions for routines. A few made it out of the drugstore. Some, like Joe Ancis, were brilliant in the booth and on the street; Bruce once admitted that he owed maybe a third of his act to Joe. But Ancis trembled before the prospect of flop sweat. He never went onstage. Others, like Rodney, fought the flops, but never got out quite far enough. When he married Singer Joyce Indig, he was close to 30 and still far from the big time. He worried that long weeks working joints on the road would hurt the marriage...